Johannes Maria [Giovanni Maria] Nanino {Gregory XIII-Paul V}
Tenor; Tivoli (Vallerano); born 1545 in Tivoli; maestro di cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore, 1567-1575 ; maestro di cappella at San Luigi dei Francesi, 1575-1577 ; admitted 27 October 1577 ; DS list of June 1578 ; mandati : January 1580 -November 1586 ; DS lists of 1587-1590 ; died in Rome on 11 March 1607 and was buried the next day in San Luigi die Francesi; segretario , 1588, 1589, punctator in 1596.
Nanino was a well known teacher and composer; in fact his skills in composition are specifically mentioned in the DS entry recording his admission. For a works list, see SCHULER and TNG .
DOCUMENTS
DS 11
41v: entry dated 27 October 1577
[In margin--Joannes Maria Nino admissus in cappella] Hodie R.dus D. magister cappelle post misam proposuit colegio cantorum d. Joanne Maria Nino magistrum cappelle Sancti Ludovici nationis gallorum natione italus in voce tenorum et post examen secundum statuta capelle fuit repertus suficiens in canendo et contrapunctu et etiam in conposicione musice et inventus es vir honestus et bone fame et fuit electus per vota secreta et fuit admisus in cappella et R.dus D. magister dedit illi cotam et admisus fuit ab omnibus cantoribus per obsculum pacis. Ego Michael Peramato punctator facio fidem.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 759; SCHULER, Richard Joseph. "The Life and Liturgical Works of Giovanni Maria Nanino." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1963; FREY, Hermann-Walther. "Die Kapellmeister an der französischen Nationalkirche San Luigi dei Francesi in Rom im 16. Jahrhundert. Teil I: 1514-1577." Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 22 (1965): 291-293; FREY, Hermann-Walther. "Das Diarium der Sixtinischen Sängerkapelle für das Jahr 1596 (Nr. 21). Analecta musicologica 23 (1985): 129-204.